2 Humans derive great cognitive power from the use of language Cogs 151, 153, 156, 102A Mind and body interact in interesting and surprising ways Cogs 151, 152, 155 Mind and body interact in interesting and surprising ways Cogs 151, 152, 155, 102A A group of people can do things that no person can do alone Cogs ? A group of people can do cognitive things that no person can do alone Cogs 102A A person in interaction with an environment for thinking can do cognitive things that a person in isolation could not do Cogs 102A

4 What the course is about  What does cognition look like when we focus on patterns of interaction and emergence in systems that are composed of many elements?  We will keep asking this question:  What information goes where, when, in what form? What is mind?  What is special about minds (even your cat’s mind) as opposed to inanimate objects?  And what is special about human minds compared to other animal minds?  “Mindfulness is just matter…

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